80 FR 8339 - Proposed Information Collection; Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Regulations
DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
National Park Service Federal Register Volume 80, Issue 31 (February 17, 2015)
National Park Service
Federal Register Volume 80, Issue 31 (February 17, 2015)
| Page Range | 8339-8340 | |
| FR Document | 2015-03111 |
[Federal Register Volume 80, Number 31 (Tuesday, February 17, 2015)] [Notices] [Pages 8339-8340] From the Federal Register Online [www.thefederalregister.org] [FR Doc No: 2015-03111] ----------------------------------------------------------------------- DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR National Park Service [NPS-WASO-CR-NAGPRA-17655; PPWOCRADN0, PCU00RP14.R50000] Proposed Information Collection; Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Regulations AGENCY: National Park Service (NPS), Interior. ACTION: Notice; request for comments. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- SUMMARY: We (National Park Service) will ask the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) to approve the information collection described below. As required by the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995 and as part of our continuing efforts to reduce paperwork and respondent burden, we invite the general public and other Federal agencies to take this opportunity to comment on this IC. This IC is scheduled to expire on November 30, 2015. We may not conduct or sponsor and a person is not required to respond to a collection of information unless it displays a valid OMB control number. DATES: To ensure we are able to consider your comments, we must receive them on or before April 20, 2015. ADDRESSES: Send your comments on the IC to Madonna L. Baucum, Information Collection Clearance Officer, National Park Service, 1849 C Street NW., MS 2601, Washington, DC 20240 (mail); or [email protected] (email). Please reference OMB Control Number ``1024-0144, NAGPRA'' in the subject line of your comments. FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Melanie O'Brien, Acting Manager, National NAGPRA Program, National Park Service, 1201 Eye Street NW., 8th floor, Washington, DC 20005; or via phone at 202/354-2204; or via fax at 202/354-5179; or via email at Melanie_O'[email protected]. SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: I. Abstract The Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act (NAGPRA), requires museums to compile certain information (summaries, inventories, and notices) regarding Native American cultural items in their possession or control and provide that information to lineal descendants, likely interested Indian tribes and Native Hawaiian organizations, and the National NAGPRA Program (acting on behalf of the Secretary of the Interior, housed in the National Park Service), to support consultation in the process of publishing notices that establish rights to repatriation. The summaries are general descriptions of the museum's Native American collection, sent to all possibly interested tribes to disclose the collection, should the tribe desire to consult on items and present a claim. The inventories are item-by-item lists of the human remains and their funerary objects, upon which the museum consults with likely affiliated tribes to determine cultural affiliation, tribal land origination, or origination from aboriginal lands of Federal recognized tribes. Consultation and claims for items require information exchange between museums and tribes on the collections. Notices of Inventory Completion, published in the Federal Register, indicate the museum decisions of rights of lineal descendants and tribes to receive human remains and funerary objects; Notices of Intent to Repatriate, published in the Federal Register, indicate the agreements of museums and tribes to transfer control to tribes of funerary objects, sacred objects and objects of cultural patrimony. Museums identify NAGPRA protected items in the collection through examination of museum records and from consultation with tribes. The National NAGPRA Program maintains the public databases of summary, inventory and notice information to support consultation. In the first 20 years of the administration of NAGPRA approximately 40,000 Native American human remains, of a possible collection of 180,000 individuals, have been listed in NAGPRA notices. Information collection of previous years is of lasting benefit, diminishing efforts in future years. II. Data OMB Number: 1024-0144. Title: Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Regulations, 43 CFR part 10. [[Page 8340]] Service Form Number: None. Type of Request: Extension of a currently approved collection of information. Description of Respondents: Museums that receive Federal funds and have possession of or control over Native American cultural items. Respondent's Obligation: Voluntary. Frequency of Collection: On occasion. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Annual Annual Average time/ response Total annual Information collections respondents responses (hr) burden hours ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- New Summary/Inventory --Private Sector............... 1 1 100 hours.................. 100 --Govt......................... 2 2 200 hours.................. 200 Update Summary/Inventory --Private Sector............... 226 226 10 hours................... 2,260 --Govt......................... 245 245 10 hours................... 2,450 Notices --Private Sector............... 41 41 10 hours................... 410 --Govt......................... 64 64 10 hours................... 640 Notify Tribes and Request Information --Private Sector............... 4 4 30 minutes................. 2 --Govt......................... 10 10 30 minutes................. 5 Respond to Request for Information --Govt......................... 16 16 48 minutes................. 13 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Totals..................... 609 609 ........................... 6,080 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Estimated Annual Nonhour Burden Cost: None. III. Comments We invite comments concerning this information collection on:Whether or not the collection of information is necessary, including whether or not the information will have practical utility; The accuracy of the burden for this collection of information; Ways to enhance the quality, utility, and clarity of the information to be collected; and Ways to minimize the burden to respondents, including use of automated information techniques or other forms of information technology. Please note that the comments submitted in response to this notice are a matter of public record. We will include or summarize each comment in our request to OMB to approve this IC. Before including your address, phone number, email address, or other personal identifying information in your comment, you should be aware that your entire comment, including your personal identifying information, may be made publicly available at any time. While you can ask us in your comment to withhold your personal identifying information from public review, we cannot guarantee that it will be done. Dated: February 10, 2015. Madonna L. Baucum, Information Collection Clearance Officer, National Park Service. [FR Doc. 2015-03111 Filed 2-13-15; 8:45 am] BILLING CODE 4310-EH-P
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the petition/application constitutes a authorizations of a temporary nature SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
withdrawal proposal of the Secretary of that will not significantly impact the
I. Abstract
the Interior (43 CFR 2310.1–3(e)). values to be protected by the
The use of a right-of-way, interagency withdrawal may be allowed with the The Native American Graves
agreement, or cooperative agreement approval of the authorized officer of the Protection and Repatriation Act
would not adequately constrain mineral BLM during the temporary segregation (NAGPRA), requires museums to
location and surface entry which could period. compile certain information
adversely affect ongoing management The application will be processed in (summaries, inventories, and notices)
activities, and existing and planned accordance with the regulations set regarding Native American cultural
capital improvements resulting in land forth in 43 CFR part 2300. items in their possession or control and
use conflicts as well as irretrievable loss provide that information to lineal
Christopher DeWitt, descendants, likely interested Indian
of natural resources.
No water is necessary to fulfill the Acting Chief, Branch of Land, Mineral, and tribes and Native Hawaiian
purpose of the requested withdrawal. Energy Resources. organizations, and the National
Records relating to this withdrawal [FR Doc. 2015–03101 Filed 2–13–15; 8:45 am] NAGPRA Program (acting on behalf of
application may be examined by BILLING CODE 4310–33–P the Secretary of the Interior, housed in
contacting the BLM at the above address the National Park Service), to support
and phone number. consultation in the process of
For a period until May 18, 2015, all DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR publishing notices that establish rights
persons who wish to submit comments, to repatriation. The summaries are
suggestions, or objections in connection National Park Service general descriptions of the museum’s
with the proposed withdrawal may [NPS–WASO–CR–NAGPRA–17655; Native American collection, sent to all
present their views in writing to the PPWOCRADN0, PCU00RP14.R50000] possibly interested tribes to disclose the
BLM State Director at the address collection, should the tribe desire to
indicated above. Proposed Information Collection; consult on items and present a claim.
Comments, including names and Native American Graves Protection The inventories are item-by-item lists of
street addresses of respondents, will be and Repatriation Regulations the human remains and their funerary
available for public review at the AGENCY: National Park Service (NPS), objects, upon which the museum
address indicated above during regular Interior. consults with likely affiliated tribes to
business hours. Before including your determine cultural affiliation, tribal land
ACTION: Notice; request for comments.
address, phone number, email address, origination, or origination from
or other personal identifying SUMMARY: We (National Park Service) aboriginal lands of Federal recognized
information in your comment, be will ask the Office of Management and tribes. Consultation and claims for items
advised that your entire comment— Budget (OMB) to approve the require information exchange between
including your personal identifying information collection described below. museums and tribes on the collections.
information—may be made publicly As required by the Paperwork Notices of Inventory Completion,
available at any time. While you can ask Reduction Act of 1995 and as part of our published in the Federal Register,
us in your comment to withhold from continuing efforts to reduce paperwork indicate the museum decisions of rights
public review your personal identifying and respondent burden, we invite the of lineal descendants and tribes to
information, we cannot guarantee that general public and other Federal receive human remains and funerary
we will be able to do so. agencies to take this opportunity to objects; Notices of Intent to Repatriate,
Notice is hereby given that an comment on this IC. This IC is published in the Federal Register,
opportunity for a public meeting is scheduled to expire on November 30, indicate the agreements of museums
afforded in connection with the 2015. We may not conduct or sponsor and tribes to transfer control to tribes of
proposed withdrawal. All interested and a person is not required to respond funerary objects, sacred objects and
parties who desire a public meeting for to a collection of information unless it objects of cultural patrimony. Museums
the purpose of being heard on the displays a valid OMB control number. identify NAGPRA protected items in the
proposed withdrawal must submit a DATES: To ensure we are able to collection through examination of
written request to the BLM State consider your comments, we must museum records and from consultation
Director at the address indicated above receive them on or before April 20, with tribes.
by May 18, 2015. Upon determination 2015. The National NAGPRA Program
by the authorized officer that a public maintains the public databases of
meeting will be held, a notice of the ADDRESSES: Send your comments on the
summary, inventory and notice
time and place will be published in the IC to Madonna L. Baucum, Information information to support consultation. In
Federal Register and a local newspaper Collection Clearance Officer, National the first 20 years of the administration
at least 30 days before the scheduled Park Service, 1849 C Street NW., MS of NAGPRA approximately 40,000
date of the meeting. 2601, Washington, DC 20240 (mail); or Native American human remains, of a
For a period until February 17, 2017, madonna_baucum@nps.gov (email). possible collection of 180,000
the public lands described in this notice Please reference OMB Control Number individuals, have been listed in
will be segregated from location and ‘‘1024–0144, NAGPRA’’ in the subject NAGPRA notices. Information
entry under the United States mining line of your comments. collection of previous years is of lasting
laws, but not from leasing under the FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: benefit, diminishing efforts in future
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mineral or geothermal leasing laws, or Melanie O’Brien, Acting Manager, years.
disposal under the Materials Act of National NAGPRA Program, National
1947, unless the application is denied or Park Service, 1201 Eye Street NW., 8th II. Data
canceled or the withdrawal is approved floor, Washington, DC 20005; or via OMB Number: 1024–0144.
prior to that date. phone at 202/354–2204; or via fax at Title: Native American Graves
Licenses, permits, cooperative 202/354–5179; or via email at Melanie_ Protection and Repatriation Regulations,
agreements, or discretionary land use O’Brien@nps.gov. 43 CFR part 10.
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Service Form Number: None. Description of Respondents: Museums Respondent’s Obligation: Voluntary.
Type of Request: Extension of a that receive Federal funds and have Frequency of Collection: On occasion.
currently approved collection of possession of or control over Native
information. American cultural items.
Average time/
Annual Annual Total annual
Information collections response
respondents responses burden hours
(hr)
New Summary/Inventory
—Private Sector ..................................................................................... 1 1 100 hours ......... 100
—Govt .................................................................................................... 2 2 200 hours ......... 200
Update Summary/Inventory
—Private Sector ..................................................................................... 226 226 10 hours ........... 2,260
—Govt .................................................................................................... 245 245 10 hours ........... 2,450
Notices
—Private Sector ..................................................................................... 41 41 10 hours ........... 410
—Govt .................................................................................................... 64 64 10 hours ........... 640
Notify Tribes and Request Information
—Private Sector ..................................................................................... 4 4 30 minutes ........ 2
—Govt .................................................................................................... 10 10 30 minutes ........ 5
Respond to Request for Information
—Govt .................................................................................................... 16 16 48 minutes ........ 13
Totals .............................................................................................. 609 609 ........................... 6,080
Estimated Annual Nonhour Burden DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR collection directly to the Office of
Cost: None. Management and Budget (OMB) Office
NATIONAL PARK SERVICE of Information and Regulatory Affairs,
III. Comments
[NPS–WASO–NRSS–EQD–SSB–17651; Attention: Desk Officer for the
We invite comments concerning this PPWONRADE3, PPMRSNR1Y.NM000] Department of the Interior, to OIRA_
information collection on: Submission@omb.eop.gov (email) or
• Whether or not the collection of Proposed Information Collection; 202–395–5806 (fax); and identify your
information is necessary, including Comment Request: A Survey of Direct submission as 1024–DREC. Please also
whether or not the information will Recreational Uses Along the Colorado send a copy of your comments to
have practical utility; River Phadrea Ponds, Information Collection
• The accuracy of the burden for this Coordinator, National Park Service,
collection of information; National Park Service, Interior.
AGENCY:
1201 Oakridge Drive, Fort Collins, CO
• Ways to enhance the quality, utility, Notice and request for
ACTION:
80525 (mail); or phadrea_ponds@
and clarity of the information to be comments. nps.gov (email). Please reference
collected; and SUMMARY: We (National Park Service) Information Collection 1024–DREC in
• Ways to minimize the burden to are asking the Office of Management the subject line.
respondents, including use of and Budget (OMB) to approve the FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
automated information techniques or Information Collection Request (ICR) Phadrea Ponds, Information Collection
other forms of information technology. described below. The National Park Review Coordinator, National Park
Please note that the comments Service (NPS) is requesting approval of Service, 1201 Oakridge Drive, Fort
submitted in response to this notice are a new collection that will be collected Collins, CO 80525 (mail); or phadrea_
a matter of public record. We will in collaboration with the U.S. ponds@nps.gov (email). Please reference
include or summarize each comment in Geological Survey’s Grand Canyon Information Collection 1024–DREC in
our request to OMB to approve this IC. Monitoring and Research Center and the subject line. You may also access
Before including your address, phone used to provide information concerning this ICR at www.reginfo.gov.
number, email address, or other the direct recreational uses along the
personal identifying information in your Colorado River—specifically the stretch I. Abstract
comment, you should be aware that between the Glen Canyon Dam and
your entire comment, including your We wish to conduct this study to
Lee’s Ferry. To comply with the understand the social and economic
personal identifying information, may Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995 and
be made publicly available at any time. impacts of water levels on recreation
as a part of our continuing efforts to uses of the Colorado River, specifically
While you can ask us in your comment reduce paperwork and respondent
to withhold your personal identifying the areas from Glen Canyon Dam to the
burden, we invite the general public and head of Lake Mead. We are requesting
information from public review, we other Federal agencies to comment on
cannot guarantee that it will be done. approval to administer two versions of
this ICR.
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the key valuation questions (CV and
Dated: February 10, 2015. DATES: To ensure that your comments conjoint). The rationale for
Madonna L. Baucum, on this ICR are considered, OMB must administering two surveys containing
Information Collection Clearance Officer, receive them on or before March 19, CV and conjoint questions is because
National Park Service. 2015. the survey design recognizes that the
[FR Doc. 2015–03111 Filed 2–13–15; 8:45 am] ADDRESSES: Please submit written state of the art methods used in non-
BILLING CODE 4310–EH–P comments on this information market valuation have substantially
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| Contact | Melanie O'Brien, Acting Manager, National NAGPRA Program, National Park Service, 1201 Eye Street NW., 8th floor, Washington, DC 20005; or via phone at 202/354-2204; or via fax at 202/354-5179; or via email at Melanie_O'[email protected] | |
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